The night on which they were to kill "an entire civilization"

When this article appears in print, we will already know if “a whole civilization” has died “this night”. After all, if God made the world in seven days, what could prevent the best president the Earth has ever seen since the appearance of Man from erasing Iran and its thousands of years of history in a single night? Trump's ability to turn everything he touches into shit is exhausting, day and night.

This includes the planetary success that NASA is achieving with its space mission around the Moon. The contrast is eloquent and speaks for itself about the world that pathological leadership is bringing us to. The president insults and threatens Iran in the most vulgar and boastful terms possible at the same time that his astronauts, who are further from Earth than any human being has ever been, send those images of serene beauty that, for a moment, make us see our world as a tiny unit on the scale of the universe and, by making us look up, lift our thoughts a little higher. It makes you want to be on the Moon, rather than on Earth. Trump himself has counter-programmed American success. There would only be one possibility for Trump to shut up for a while in the face of an admirable technical and scientific event like the one being broadcast live from thousands of kilometers away: that he himself were one of the astronauts.

We have reason to believe that Trump is capable of anything in Iran and that the ayatollahs' regime will die fighting, if it dies at all. What has certainly died is the entire civility that is supposed to be part of a democratic presidency.